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# Heat Kernel estimates for some elliptic operators with unbounded diffusion coefficients

• We prove heat kernel bounds for the operator $(1+|x|^\alpha)\Delta$ in $\mathbb{R}^N$, through Nash inequalities and weighted Hardy inequalities.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 47D07, 35B50, 35J25, 35J70.

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